“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Crisp Fall Day
We’re spending the day at the Dallas Arboretum looking at their houses o’ gourds. We also may do this great fall mixed-media art project from That Artist Woman. I’ve saved my egg shells and everything. It’s a new month so new songs. Our folk song is an Irish tune called “The Rose of Tralee.” […]
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Hymn Sunday: We’re all going to die
We sang this version of “Jesus Paid It All” revised by Kristian Stanfill, who I’m sure is a nice person, and this in no way is meant to reflect on him, his theology, or his hairdo. I’m just observing something. When people revise hymns they typically only use two or at most three verses, […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Can’t stop laughing
A new month brings us new songs (and a new picture). We’re still studying Copley. We’re looking at “The Death of the Earl of Chatham” which depicts the collapse of William Pitt the Elder during a debate in the House of Lords on the American Revolution. How weird must that have been for the American […]
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Perfect Peace
My “go to” scripture when I’m feeling stressed/overwhelmed/ready to curl up in a ball and whimper is Isaiah 26:3: “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” This has been a stressful time for our family. Right now we’re trying to do that budget thing where […]
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Thoughts on worship: Transcendent and intimate
The beauty of the intimacy the Christian has with God is inextricably linked with the wonders of a transcendent God who breaches the gap between the eternal and omnipotent to reach the finite and fragile. It’s the fact that the God of Job is also the Shepherd, the Shelterer. The wonder of the Incarnation is […]
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Fine Arts Friday: First Term Tunes
Ah, September and the back to school bliss even when we don’t go to school. We’re starting new everything this month, so I thought I’d cover the music we’re listening to this week. Our composer this term is Franz Joseph Haydn. We read this short bio geared to kids, and we found Austria on the […]
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They’re not dead yet!
I’ve written some about hymns, and they’ve all been old enough to be in the public domain. But there is a resurgence in hymn writing, and the result is some wonderful songs that are filled with the beauty and truth of God. This is one we sang in church today and a favorite of mine. […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Hymns
The mention of hymns often gets a lot of backlash. “Hymn singing is old fashioned, passe, and totally without value. Get with the 21st century!” First, those people can get off my lawns. Second: Shakespeare, Mozart, Renoir, Pope, Homer, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Austen, Virgil, da Vinci. Need I go on? We don’t discard art from the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Random
Mid-July isn’t the best time for thinking. Frankly it’s too dang hot to engage any muscle, including the brain. But you can listen to music and look at pretty paintings without much effort, so today’s fine arts post is a bit of random beauty. We haven’t faithfully followed the Ambleside schedule for folk songs, so […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Birthday happenings
Today is MTG’s birthday, and he’s taken the day off. We’re going to see the decidedly unfine-artsy “Star Trek: Into Darkness.” Then we’ll probably take the kids to the nature preserve or something similar, and I’ll make him a birthday cobbler. That is to say, we aren’t going to be concentrating on a lot of […]
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